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SpeciesPasseriformesPrunellidae
Birds

🐦Dunnock

Prunella modularis (Linnaeus, 1758)

The dunnock is a small passerine, or perching bird, found throughout temperate Europe and into Asian Russia. Dunnocks have also been introduced and become common in New Zealand. It is the most widespread member of the accentor family; most other accentors are limited to mountain habitats. Other, largely archaic, English names for the dunnock include hedge accentor, hedge sparrow, hedge warbler, and titling.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
21 years
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Everything we know about the Dunnock

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.02 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.02 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.06 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.01 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
21 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Dunnock yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPasseriformes
  5. ›familyPrunellidae
  6. ›genusPrunella
  7. ›speciesPrunella modularis
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  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  4. genusPrunella
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderPerching birds · Passeriformes
  11. genusPrunella
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In other languages
Pokrzywnica (pl), Accenteur mouchet (fr), Prunella modularis (es), erdei szürkebegy (hu), Prunella modularis (it), Prunella modularis (de) … and 24 more languages
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